Laurie Penny takes a fancy to Big Brother

Wednesday 5 February 2014 12:59 BST

What next for Laurie Penny? The feminist writer spent much of last week engaged in online spats about her latest New Statesman column, on the politics of women’s hair, in which she was accused of the highest of crimes in the world of activist blogging — failing to “check her privilege”.

After all the commotion she could be forgiven for feeling she deserved a break, and apparently an intriguing possibility has arisen to do just that. “I just got asked to do Big Brother,” writes Penny on her Facebook page. “I mean, no, but part of me desperately wants to do it and write about it.”

A colleague of Penny’s tells The Londoner: “She should do it. A couple of weeks locked up without Twitter would do her nerves the world of good.”